POLL TAX OF 1381 IN THE CATHEDRAL AND ITS JURISDICTION

140. [E 179/42/10 m. 1] Particulars of the account of William Coleyn canon
of the cathedral church of London, collector of the subsidy granted to king
Richard II by the clergy in convocation (apud parliamentum) at Northampton in the fourth year [of his reign] within the said cathedral church and the
peculiar jurisdiction of its dean and chapter, viz. from the said subsidy as
follows:

146. [m. 2] Names of persons in St Paul's cathedral and within the peculiar
jurisdiction of the dean and chapter paying divers sums, specified below,
towards the subsidy granted to the king in the fourth year of his reign by
the clergy in convocation (in parliamento) at Norhampton; that is, to the
help and succour of other persons of less substance. These people mentioned
below are not to be reckoned among the number of other persons paying
towards this subsidy.

154. [m. 3] Names of persons from whom William Coleyn, canon of London
cathedral, collector of the subsidy granted to the king by the clergy at
Northampton in the fourth year of king Richard II within the said cathedral
and the peculiar jurisdiction of its dean and chapter, levies nothing to the
king's use because those persons pay elsewhere in the dioceses specified
below.

The prior of Walsingham (Walsyngham) collector answers for these items.
William rector of Hartest (Herthurst), archdeaconry of Sudbury.
The priors of Butley and St Peter Ipswich (Gippewici) collectors answer for
this item.

172. Approval. Total persons on this roll with whom the aforesaid collector
is burdened, beyond other ecclesiastical persons found in the accounts of
other collectors, six persons; subsidy £2.

Footnotes

1. The material on this membrane is arranged in three columns. In the left hand
margin is shown the area of jurisdiction within which the benefice lies; in the centre
are the incumbents and their benefices, the entries here being literally translateable as
'Concerning dominus AB there is no answer because he pays at his church of St C;
the right hand column shows the collector or collectors in that area.